History MC (24-27)

The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s believed largely in:

"100 percent Americanism"

The tariff policy of the early 1920s:

made it harder for other nations to sell to the United States

Calvin Coolidge derisively called President Hoover:

"Wonder Boy"

The Budget and Accounting Act of 1921 created:

. a new Bureau of the Budget to streamline the process of preparing an annual federal budget

How many people were out of work in early 1933?

12 million

The amendment to the Constitution that barred the manufacture or sale of intoxicating liquors was ratified in:

1919

In the 1928 presidential election, the Democrats nominated:

Alfred Smith

Which of the members of Harding's cabinet was jailed for his role in the Teapot Dome scandal?

Albert Fall

Harding's secretary of the treasury, who pushed tax cuts for the wealthy, was:

Andrew Mellon

What did the governments of Italy and Germany have in common by the 1930s?

Both had established fascist forms of government.

Of the following presidents, which tied government and business closer together than at any other time in the twentieth century?

Calvin Coolidge

The Marco Polo Bridge incident brought Japan to war against what country?

China

Which is true of the 1936 presidential election?

FDR defeated Alf Landon in a landslide.

Whose campaign song was "Happy Days Are Here Again"?

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Which of the following statements about the 1940 presidential election is true?

Franklin Roosevelt became the only president to run for and win a third term.

Following the Pearl Harbor attack:

Germany and Italy also declared war on the United States

All of the following statements about the German Blitzkrieg of spring 1940 are true, EXCEPT:

Germany carefully avoided attacks on neutral nations and only targeted professed enemies

Who headed the Works Progress Administration (WPA) at its creation in 1935?

Harry Hopkins

Which of the following is NOT true about Robert La Follette's 1924 presidential campaign?

He tried to unite the fractured Democratic party.

Who served as secretary of agriculture under FDR?

Henry Wallace

Which of the following refused to apply for a Social Security card?

Herbert Hoover

During the Spanish Civil War:

Hitler and Mussolini helped the armed uprising led by Francisco Franco

Who was known as "Kingfish"?

Huey Long

Which statement best describes the Native American experience in the armed forces during World War II?

Indian servicemen were integrated into regular units.

Which of the following is NOT true of the "American plan" concept of employment?

It promised a more democratic work environment than most other shops.

Which of the following is NOT true of the McNary-Haugen plan?

It was supported by Coolidge as a way to empower farmers.

Winston Churchill, who would become the British prime minister in 1940, predicted that this agreement would not end Hitler's assaults, saying that, "This is only the beginning of the reckoning."

Munich Pact

This organization sought to set workplace standards, such as child labor restrictions:

National Recovery Association

Germany's invasion of what country triggered the beginning of World War II in Europe?

Poland

Less than a month before the surrender of Germany:

President Roosevelt died in office

During the presidential election of 1936:

Republicans hoped that third-party candidates might split the Democratic vote and throw the election to them

During the 1924 presidential election:

Robert M. La Follette barely won the nomination of a faction-ridden Republican party

The Revenue Act of 1935 (sometimes called the Wealth-Tax Act):

The Revenue Act of 1935 (sometimes called the Wealth-Tax Act):

Whose campaign pledge stated he would "safeguard America first"?

Warren G. Harding

Franklin Roosevelt's opponent in the 1940 presidential election was:

Wendell Willkie

Who said, "When the hordes of aliens walk to the ballot box and their votes outnumber yours, then that alien horde has got you by the throat"?

William J. Simmons

At the outset of his presidency, to deal with the banking crisis, Roosevelt:

declared a bank holiday, shutting the banks down briefly

Democratic presidential nominee Alfred Smith was hurt in 1928 by the fact that he was:

a New Yorker and a Catholic

The 1937 economic slump was caused in part by:

a sharp decrease in government spending

In early 1937, FDR proposed to reform the Supreme Court by:

adding up to six additional members

In late summer 1940, President Roosevelt agreed to send fifty "overaged" destroyers to Britain in return for:

allowing the United States to build naval and air bases on British islands in the Caribbean

Like Huey Long, Charles Coughlin:

appealed to people who had lost the most during the Great Depression

How many members did the Ku Klux Klan allegedly have at its peak?

as many as 4 million

Hoover's early efforts to end the Depression included:

asking businessmen to maintain wages and avoid layoffs, in order to keep purchasing power strong

The "sit-down strike" was used successfully in 1937 by:

automobile workers

The bracero program:

brought some 200,000 Mexican farmworkers into the western United States

The McNary-Haugen bill:

called for surplus crops to be sold on the world market in order to raise domestic prices

Following the defeat of Germany:

came the shocking realization of the full extent of the Holocaust

The offensives Italy launched in 1940 against Greece and British forces in Egypt:

came with the help of German forces

Despite the many well-founded criticisms of Warren Harding as president, he was a visionary for his era in the field of:

civil rights

Through the Lend-Lease bill, passed in January 1941, "any country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States

could receive military equipment, supplies, and other necessary materials even if that country lacked the funds to pay for those items

The goal of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 was to raise farm income mainly through:

cutbacks in production

Huey Long:

developed a program called the Share-the-Wealth Society

Harding's secretary of the treasury:

favored a reduction of the high wartime level of taxation but mainly for the rich

The immigration quota laws passed in the 1920s:

favored immigrants from northern and western Europe

In the 1920s, farm prices:

fell sharply

The Neutrality Act of 1935:

forbade the sale of arms and munitions to warring nations

In yellow-dog contracts, employers:

forced workers to agree to stay out of unions

Just before his election to the presidency in 1932, Franklin D. Roosevelt was serving as:

governor of New York

The Klan attracted all of the following groups EXCEPT:

immigrants

In Texas, the Klan focused on:

imposing its severe view of righteous Protestant morality on others.

British and American differences over where to attack Germany first were resolved with the decision to launch an offensive:

in North Africa

Labor's new direction in the late 1930s was toward:

industrial unions

In June 1941, Germany widened the war by:

invading the Soviet Union

The biggest scandal of the Harding administration:

involved the leasing of government-owned oil deposits to private companies

The progressive coalition that elected Woodrow Wilson president dissolved by 1920 for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:

many of the progressive reforms still seemed unattainable

Following the declaration of war:

men between the ages of eighteen and forty-five were drafted

In 1939, Franklin Roosevelt for the first time presented:

no new reform programs that year

In the case of Schechter Poultry Corporation v. United States, the Supreme Court:

overturned the National Industrial Recovery Act

The 1939 Neutrality Act's cash-and-carry provision:

permitted the United States to sell arms to Britain and France if they paid up-front and carried their purchases on their own ships

The Marx Brothers:

produced plotless masterpieces of irreverent satire

The main purpose of the Civilian Conservation Corps was to:

provide work relief for young men

In the case of Norris v. Alabama, the Supreme Court:

ruled that the systematic exclusion of blacks from juries denied Scottsboro defendants equal protection of the law

The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938:

set a minimum wage of 40¢ an hour

The Office of Price Administration:

set price ceilings on and rationed highly demanded items such as tires, sugar, and gasoline

The 1924 immigration law:

set strict yearly limits on the number of immigrants allowed into the country

America's "good neighbor" policy:

supported the idea of nonintervention in Latin America

Which one of the following is associated with Dayton, Tennessee?

the Scopes Trial

The country that suffered the most deaths in the fighting of World War II was:

the Soviet Union

Roosevelt's court-packing scheme became unnecessary when:

the Supreme Court began reversing previous judgments and upholding the New Deal

By the autumn of 1941:

the U.S. Navy was engaging the German Navy in the Atlantic

Following the conclusion of World War II, the two most powerful nations in the world were:

the United States and the Soviet Union

The Dust Bowl can be associated with:

the blowing away of millions of acres of topsoil

All of the following were objectives of the Tennessee Valley Authority EXCEPT:

the development of Smoky Mountain National Park

The Atlantic Charter included all the following principles EXCEPT:

the elimination of communism

What significant objective motivated Japanese expansion into Southeast Asia and the Pacific during 1940-1941?

the expansion's provision of access to vitally needed raw materials

The result in the presidential election of 1920 might be attributed to:

the fact that Americans in the 1920s were "tired of issues, sick at heart of ideals, and weary of being noble"

Of all the causes of the stock market crash of October 1929, the greatest culprit was:

the weak foundation of the 1920s economy

Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were:

two Italian-born anarchists sentenced to death and executed even though there was doubt as to their guilt

Conservatives lambasted the Social Security Act as:

tyrannical

The "Ohio gang":

was a group of President Harding's friends who were named to political office

Eleanor Roosevelt:

was especially supportive of women, blacks, and youth

The conservative Democratic opposition to the New Deal in the late 1930s:

was heaviest in the South

The National Labor Relations Act:

was often called the Wagner Act

Franklin D. Roosevelt:

was permanently disabled after contracting polio

Charles E. Coughlin:

was the "radio priest"

John W. Davis:

was the Democratic presidential candidate in 1924

Yellow-dog contracts:

were used by employers to restrict union membership

By November 1941, the United States insisted it would reopen trade with Japan only after that country:

withdrew completely from China

Richard Wright:

wrote Native Son, a story of racial prejudice